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Michelle Obama, with Malia and Sasha, skiing in Colorado this weekend
WaPo ^ | Ed O'Keefe

Posted on 02/19/2011 9:46:00 AM PST by VRWCTexan

"The First Lady and the Obama daughters are on a private family trip to Colorado," Michelle Obama's spokeswoman, Katie McCormick-Lelyveld, confirmed in an e-mail. "The First Lady and several close family friends are chaperoning their children on a ski trip. Personal expenses are being paid for by the Obamas."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: colorado; lightenupfrancis; notbreakingnews
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Yep .. Meechelle Antoinette is at it again

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The motorcade entered an underground garage beneath the Sebastian hotel in Vail Village shortly after 9:30 p.m.

No stranger to the slopes

It won’t be the first lady’s first time on skis. She took daughters Sasha and Malia for a quick trip to Liberty Mountain Resort, in Carroll Valley, Pa., in February 2010. It was the first time on skis for the first daughters, according to Anne Weimer, marketing director at Ski Liberty.

During an interview posted by Liberty Mountain, the first lady was asked about some her favorite hot spots. Instead, she talked about a cool spot.

“We discovered skiing. My girls had never been skiing,” she said. “With a couple hours, you’re skiing.”

Ski Liberty is 60 minutes from the White House.

“You can go from 60- and 50-degree weather to being on a slope. Not too many places in this country you can do that and still be at the seat of power.

It’s kind of cool,” she said in the interview.

http://www.vaildaily.com/ARTICLE/20110218/NEWS/110219787/-1/RSS

Well bless her little imperial heart ...

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And Biden .. I’d bet he’s at the very elite Ocean Reef Club, the fantasy island of my employment for 10+ yrs when I lived in FL.

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VP Biden planning to vacation in Key Largo
BY Robert Silk and Steve Gibbs Free Press Staff

Excerpt:

KEY LARGO — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will reportedly vacation in Key Largo this coming weekend.

“The Secret Service came by the ambulance building last week to contact us and say the vice president will be here,” Donald Bock, chief of the Key Largo Ambulance Corps, told the Free Press on Monday.

“They did not say where except to say he would be staying in the Key Largo area.”

When dignitaries travel, the Secret Service typically contacts local paramedics, fire and law enforcement authorities in advance, said Islamorada Fire Chief William Wagner III, who helped facilitate visits to Upper Matecumbe Key by George H.W. Bush when Bush was vice president in the 1980s.

Though Bock confirmed the Secret Service had been in contact with the ambulance corps, other safety agencies in Key Largo didn’t want to discuss Biden’s reported Key Largo visit when contacted by the Free Press Monday.

“I am not at liberty to reveal that information,” Key Largo Volunteer Fire-Rescue Department Chief Sergio Garcia said.

http://keysnews.com/node/29876

Ocean Reef Club

http://www.flickr.com/photos/miamiflyme/2950081345

Who knows what the dictator occupier is stealithy plotting with his puppetmasters and comrades this weekend to expand our indenture.

God help us .. the world is aflame, our nation is growing daily in risks, tyranny and anarchy in the streets, and this gang’s priority is to vacate in their indulgent royal bubble.


41 posted on 02/19/2011 10:58:56 AM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: Doe Eyes

AT least Bush went HOME to his ranch where he worked the place. And they treated the Secret Service well, doing for themselves as much as they could and not put extra chores on the SS who is reported to have loved this family. And I bet Bush would repay travel..he had a sense of what is right. This pair of grifters just take take take and to hell with us the taxpayers.
I’d love to see Moochelle stuck in a snow bank.


42 posted on 02/19/2011 11:00:28 AM PST by celtic gal
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To: Tallguy

More ‘Skin in the Game’ — Michelle Obama Goes Skiing in Vail

Feb 19, 2011 ... Nothing quite shows you’re sacrificing for the greater good and getting some of that Obama-mandated “skin in the game” than to flit off and ...

http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/2011/02/19/more-skin-in-the-game-michelle-obama-goes-skiing-in-vail-for-weekend-bidens-fly-to-florida/

Obama arrived Friday night for a weekend of skiing in Vail and Beaver Creek, according to local sources.

A motorcade of about a dozen vehicles, including 15 state and local law enforcement officers, traveled from the Eagle County Regional Airport to Vail on Friday night, according to the Colorado State Patrol. Roads were temporarily blocked to make way for the motorcade in Eagle.

The motorcade entered an underground garage beneath the Sebastian hotel in Vail Village shortly after 9:30 p.m.

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Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden is spending the Presidents Day holiday weekend in the Florida Keys.

The White House says Biden and his wife traveled to Key Largo on Thursday night. The couple will remain in the Upper Keys through Monday.


43 posted on 02/19/2011 11:00:36 AM PST by kcvl
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To: Doe Eyes
This has been going on for a long time. Do you think Congress should pass legislation that forces the first family to pay the actual cost of transportation for each personal trip?

Damn sure do!!!

44 posted on 02/19/2011 11:02:53 AM PST by top 2 toe red (Not supporting a corrupt, Marxist, Socialist President makes me a racist?!? Then a racist I am!!!)
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To: GRRRRR

Looks like fireplace and hot chocolate time for the kiddiepoos and fancy wines and goose livers for Her Majesty.


45 posted on 02/19/2011 11:09:08 AM PST by celtic gal
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To: Yaelle
Because when the people are suffering without jobs or slashed pay, the Obamas can’t go two months without a luxe vacation.

Being as visible as a President (and his family) when people are suffering, you demonstrate caring by not doing things like this.

My conclusion is that they simply don't care about the American people. Because our President is not an American anyway.

46 posted on 02/19/2011 11:09:17 AM PST by He Rides A White Horse (unite)
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To: celtic gal
Is this something (Government expenses from Vacations by the First Family) you think we should fix (pass a law) or is it only something you want to complain about?

How would you word the law? I guess working vacations are ok (free).

Should the first family travel by commercial air when they take personal vacations or pay the cost of the military aircraft?
Should they pay the costs incurred by the Secret Service during vacations?

47 posted on 02/19/2011 11:10:11 AM PST by Doe Eyes
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To: celtic gal
goose livers

Based on her menu choices since she has occupied the White House, Mooch-elle is more of a lobster connoisseur...flown to Vail fresh from the Maine lobster boats of course.

48 posted on 02/19/2011 11:29:10 AM PST by hattend (Obama got his 3am call about Egypt. The call went right to the answering machine.- Sarah Palin)
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To: VRWCTexan

Shouldn’t Michelle have to reimburse the government for two first class tickets for herself?


49 posted on 02/19/2011 11:29:50 AM PST by Reagan79 (Today, I consider myself the wisest Latina Woman on the face of the earth.)
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To: Errant
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50 posted on 02/19/2011 11:31:01 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: hattend

51 posted on 02/19/2011 11:32:21 AM PST by hattend (Obama got his 3am call about Egypt. The call went right to the answering machine.- Sarah Palin)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Put a boob belt on that snow suit and it’ll be perfect


52 posted on 02/19/2011 11:34:25 AM PST by hattend (Obama got his 3am call about Egypt. The call went right to the answering machine.- Sarah Palin)
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To: kcvl

I sincerely hope the Brits finally wake up and reciprocate with the same treatment the HUSSEIN’S are giving to all of Our Friends! Give them some typical Roast Beef and Mashed Potatos, No State Dinners, some cheap chinzey Made in China Souvenirs, and Guest Chambers in The TOWER OF LONDON afterwhich the Guards throw away the Keys forever!


53 posted on 02/19/2011 11:34:34 AM PST by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Greatest President :George W. Bush!!)
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To: hattend

Well, I thought the elevated waistband would suffice but maybe it’s too subtle, lol. She’s got the perfect newbie pink snowbunny suit otherwise, doesn’t she?


54 posted on 02/19/2011 11:38:50 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

Yep, all dressed up and...still can’t ski.

The kids are on the slopes, Mooch-elle is holed up in the dining room/bar


55 posted on 02/19/2011 11:41:17 AM PST by hattend (Obama got his 3am call about Egypt. The call went right to the answering machine.- Sarah Palin)
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To: VRWCTexan

“Personal expenses” probably amount to about 2% of the total cost of the trip.


56 posted on 02/19/2011 11:43:20 AM PST by Fresh Wind (TOTUS knows how to give a speech. Obama knows how to read.)
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To: kcvl

Just imagining that the HUSSEIN Entourage Confiscated all of the Hotel and forced the previously reserved Patrons to find other quarters.....Americans better heed Glenn Becks Warnings! They almost destroyed KENYA, then Hondoras, now Egypt and soon Israel while working on destroying Wisconsin with bussed in Terrorists!!!!! Beck might be a bit Quirkeey,but he has been right on the money with his research and forecasts! remember, he played the Video Interview of Soros bragging that he was going to Destroy the American Empire ( with the assistance of his Teleprompter reading Puppet and Muslim Terrorist)!!!!!


57 posted on 02/19/2011 11:46:56 AM PST by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Greatest President :George W. Bush!!)
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To: VRWCTexan

Poor skis. Imagine having to bear the weight of that cow.


58 posted on 02/19/2011 11:49:30 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: Fresh Wind

Howabout .000002% of the total cost of the escapade! Can anybody get some pictures, hoow much of the Hotel they Confiscated, and how many Lobsters the Wasatch had flown in for her royal consumption? It takes alot of Lobsters to keep that Arse filled up like that......;-)


59 posted on 02/19/2011 11:50:23 AM PST by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Greatest President :George W. Bush!!)
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To: FrankR
Skiing?

"Break a leg" ;-)

60 posted on 02/19/2011 11:51:37 AM PST by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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